Please remember to keep refreshing this page or follow me on Twitter for the fastest updates. Here are your expected starting goalies for tonight:

Jose Theodore the first goalie off the ice, indicating he will make the start, according to Corey Masisak of The Washington Times. As we mentioned in our Injury Update, Semyon Varlamov listed day-to-day so Michael Neuvirth will back up Theodore.

Injuries: Radek Martinek out for the season. Andy Sutton out at least two more games.

Depth: Rookie Andrew MacDonald already plays 12 minutes a game. Brendan Witt is a team worst minus 15. Dustin Kohn is the only option to be called up.

A few players that Botta thinks would make sense: Aaron Ward, Garnett Exelby, Brent Sopel or Joe Corvo. Botta prefers Corvo or Ward.

A move could easily be made for all these rumored available defensemen. As I wrote earlier, I don’t think Carolina is purely in “sell-mode” yet, moving Ward will make the team younger and may even be a bit of addition by subtraction. Getting rid of a vet not necessarily working out may wake up some other underachieving players. I still feel Carolina will need a young defenseman coming back or will have to wait for Corvo to return from injury to replace Ward’s minutes.

Interesting to see what will happen on the Island. They are willing to spend, which is a welcome change to a very promising young team.

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